A new Emerson College Polling survey shows President Joe Biden with a solid lead for the Democrat nomination for president in 2024, but environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., grabbed one-fifth of the poll’s voters, implicating that Biden is already facing some competition for his reelection.

The national survey of 1,100 registered voters, conducted on April 24-25, while Biden was making his reelection bid official, showed Biden with 70% of the vote, compared to 21% for Kennedy, son of assassinated Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and longtime Sen. Ted Kennedy, and 8% for Marianne Williamson.

Kennedy’s numbers come after several Democrats, including Williamson, have criticized the Democratic National Committee’s decision not to plan any primary debates in the upcoming election, preferring instead to consolidate power behind Biden, reports Fox News.

[There’s nothing new about that strategy. Both parties routinely do this for incumbent presidents seeking second terms; the RNC actually went so far as to merge with the Trump campaign in early 2019. But this kind of softness in the party’s base should have Democrats worried about Biden and general-election turnout. — Ed]